Anti-greed activists to 'Occupy Asheville'

2:53 PM,
Oct. 2, 2011

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Anti-greed activists in Asheville braved a chilly night camping out in the downtown, and leaders of the group say they aren't going anywhere soon.

Members of the Occupy Asheville movement say they hope to create more public awareness about corporate greed and preferential treatment, social inequality and a lack of compassion in America for the poor.

"If there's any grand slogan for this, it's 'We're the 99 percent. It's all of us, unless you're one of the multimillionaires,'" Andy Balla, one of the campers on Wall Street on Saturday night, said today. ...